Product Description

Richly enshrouded in legend and superstition, hollies are enjoying a peak of popularity as gardeners awaken to their versatility of form, foliage, and fruit. There is a holly for every temperate region in the world, and Christopher Bailes celebrates American, European, Chinese, and Japanese hollies in equal measure, providing detailed planting advice and illustrating his account with vivid photographs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86740 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
In Hollies for Gardeners, Christopher Bailes celebrates the form, foliage, and fruit of hollies, providing detailed planting advice and illustrating his account with vivid photographs.

About the Author
Christopher Bailes is Curator of the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Rosemoor. He has been based at Rosemoor, which holds one of the two British NCCPG national collections of Ilex, since 1988; for six years he also managed the RHS garden at Hyde Hall. For a long time his specialist subject was orchids: he wrote numerous papers and three books on the subject and was editor of The Orchid Review for four years. His present area of expertise is wide-ranging, covering ornamentals of all kinds, including perennials, woodland gardening, structural planting and Southern Hemisphere plants.